From Xenophon: “Success should never breed complacency.”
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Quote of the day 09/19/25
From Xenophon: “For I believe that the best life is lived by those who take the best care to make themselves as good as possible, and the pleasantest life by those who are most conscious that they are becoming better.”
Quote of the day 09/17/25
From Xenophon: “Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.”
Quote of the day 09/11/25
From Kazuo Ishiguro: “If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.”
Quote of the day 08/31/25
From Haruki Murakami: “A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”
Quote of the day 08/25/25
From Haruki Murakami: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Quote of the day 08/20/25
From Henri Bergson: “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Quote of the day 08/10/25
From John Keats: “Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwardsContinue reading “Quote of the day 08/10/25”
Quote of the day 08/07/25
From John Keats: “The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing — to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”
Quote of the day 07/31/25
From John Keats: “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”